Pan

Pan, in Greek mythology, the god of flocks, herds, woods, and fields, represented as an ugly but merry man with the legs and usually the horns and ears of a goat. He played the pan-pipes, which he invented, and his musical skills helped him to seduce the nymphs he constantly pursued (he was regarded as a personification of Lust). Pan was thought to be responsible for the sudden alarm felt by people, especially travellers in remote and desolate places--hence the term panic.

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